What’s more is it works with your present theme and everything you develop with it is fully mobile responsive.

So stop getting confused with shortcodes or writing HTML because with Beaver Builder, developing professional, eye-catching WordPress pages and sites has become simpler than ever.

Features

Compatible with almost any WordPress theme: Beaver Builder is compatible with almost any WordPress theme (that includes your custom designs as well). However, based on your chosen pricing plan, it also comes with its own theme.

Frontend editing: Unlike many WordPress page builders, Beaver Builder allows you to directly develop and edit your website’s content and layouts on the frontend. So, with it, you can go on with your work in such a manner that closely resembles how your site will lookwhen it gets published.

Inbuilt page templates: Beaver Builder comes with a number of inner-page and pre-built home page layouts.The former group holds templates for pages like services, about us, contact, blog archive,and more. All layouts are also completely customizable with this builder.

Complete drag and drop interface: The full drag and drop functionality of this page builder has completely eliminated the pain of placing texts and images piece by piece. Now you can take full control over your page layouts.

Multisite-capable: Beaver Builder is capable of handling multiple sites. Based on your chosen plan, you can have access through the network control panel that allows you make modifications across your network.

Good customer support: You’ll receive expert support from the world-class support team of Beaver Builder.

There is a tab/button named Page Builder located on the top-right of your page that you can click to open the editor.

If you’re creating a new page, Beaver Builder provides you with an option to select a template from its comprehensive range of templates.

Then you can add elements and modules to your page by using the editor panel. (Remember to reopen this panel if you want to add new elements while working on something else as the panel becomes hidden.)

Price

Beaver Builder comes with three pricing options:

$99 (Standard):

All modules, no theme, 1-year support.

$199 (Pro):

Beaver Builder theme, multisite compatible.

$399 (Agency):

Multisite compatible with network settings, theme.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Easy to work with: Easily understandable user-friendly interface.

Flexible functionality: Allows working with content modules and WordPress widgets.

Works with multiple sites: Can be used on a countless number of websites.

Inadequate justification for higher pricing:Pro and Agency licenses (the two higher priced licensing options) don’t legitimize their extra cost (especially when multisite support comes as a standard feature with Visual Composer).

Thrive Content Builder

Overview

This 100% WordPress plugin works on the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) principle.

With Thrive Content Builder, you don’t need any HTML or CSS knowledge to add elements anywhere on your webpage.

You can drag and drop elements as you wish to, without following strict patternslike other rigid web builder tools where you need to add a section at first, followed by a row, and then a column.

Also, while you go on creating your pages, you can see them in real time right on your screen. Thus, you no longer need to wait for previews or guess how a particular element, when added or deleted or tweaked, will look like on your live site.

Thrive Landing Pages: With a set of 107 pre-designed landing page templates, you can create anything from opt-in pages and squeeze pages to Thank You pages, Sales pages, Confirmation pages, and much more.

Events and Lightboxes: Event manager of Thrive Content Builder lets you animate the mouse over/entrance/click of an item. You can also create lightboxes that trigger on mouse over/screen entry/click.

Templates and Compound elements: Combining some elements of this website builder lets you create your own elements.

Since Thrive Content Builder is built with some awesome features, I have not come across any known addons for it.

Working Procedure

You can launch Thrive Content Builder from within a post, or in different locations around WordPress (for example, from the overview of pages/posts).

By adding a toolbar to either the screen’s right or left side, this builder lets you select the elements you want to add to your page and decide the order you want for such additions.

Thus, once you have created a new page, you can use this builder to add content to it right away.

Price

Thrive Content Builder comes in three plans:

$67 (Single Site):

This is the cheapest option if you just need the plugin for your site.

$97 (Unlimited Sites):

For use on unlimited sites of a personal nature.

$49/month (Agency):

For use on your or your clients’ sites. With this option, you can also use all of Thrives plugins and themesas well.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Extremely elegant designs: Simple, user-friendly designs and colors, together with easy options to completely change, edit, and modify anything to suit your purpose is a big advantage of this page builder.

Drag and drop features: No need for any coding knowledge as you can edit content with easy drag and drop features.

Easy-to-install plugin: You just need to download a single file and upload it through your WordPress “Plugins” page to start working with this plugin.

Cons

A tad expensive: Though it’s not cheap, it can still be worth investing in if you own an online business.

Inability to edit existing content: It isn’t easy to edit your already created content. You can’t simply open your post and edit it.You’ll need to copy/paste the sections you want to edit piece by piece on your Thrive editor to edit content that’s already published. You have to do it from the ground up by adding “Content” tabs for every feature you wish to add (such as images, banners, email forms, call to actions, etc.).

Visual Composer

Overview

With its user-friendly interface, Visual Composer lets you create responsive layouts in the frontend or backend of your website within minutes.

It functions well with any WordPress theme.

Coming equipped with more than ten language packs, this website builder has support for WooCommerce, WordPress Multilingual Plugin, and WordPress Multisite.

You also get a variety of pre-defined layouts and content elements.

Since Visual Composer is compatible with all available custom post types, you can use it to modify any page, blog post, and custom post types that you have added through WordPress plugins and themes.

With several developer options, along with more than a hundred add-ons, Visual Composer gives you the ease and flexibility to create pages just the way you want to.

Features

Simple drag and drop features: Without a single line of code, you can create a website, blog, portfolio, or even a portal with its simple drag and drop feature.

Inline frontend editor: It gives you a true inline editing experience where you see changes made with the most popular WYSIWYG editor available in the market.

Backend editor: Use it to create your posts, pages, and custom post types quickly. For viewing content rich layouts in schematic mode, this is the ideal solution.

Compatible with any WordPress theme: Since it works with all WordPress themes, you don’t need to switch builders when changing your theme.

Fast editing with templates and presets: Saving your WordPress layout as a template with template manager, or using over 60 predefined templates, or changing content elements to save them as a preset, you can do a lot with Visual Composer.

Create skins with customized designs: Change paddings, colors, and get several other options to create your own skins that match your brand identity.

Compatible with WooCommerce and SEO by Yoast: You can edit your WooCommerce shop on the go and take your website to the next level with this feature. With its SEO practices, Visual Composer ensures your content is indexed completely.

Learning curve: This website builder has an easy learning curve and helps users with a wide-ranging knowledge base and video tutorials.

Multisite support: Running a multisite network is made easy with Visual Composer.

Compatibility: Visual Composer is compatible with WPML, mqTranslate, and qTranslate.

Extendable with API: This is yet another feature that helps developers in creating sites and pages.

Best Add-on for Visual Composer WordPress Plugin

Visual Composer isn’t bereft of imperfections.

For example, you may find the user interface disorganized to some extent with the icons strewn about. Though, it’s fortunate that the interface is quite intuitive.

You may even face problems with upgrades. For example, with one upgrade, paragraph breaks got eliminated!

Advanced buttons: From buttons in any color, shape or size, CSS3 animations, with border settings, to those with font icons, hover effects, 3D shadows, and displaying any among 600+ Google fonts, you have a wide range of buttons to choose from.

Flip box: Appearing like a normal box, it flips open with a CSS3 effect when a visitor hovers on the block and displays a Call to Action section enticing the visitor to act.

Icons: Either use it to add a simple icon (image and font, or both) in your page or opt for Visual Composer grids to show a list of logos of your partners, clients, sponsors, etc.

Info box: Helps to highlight the important things you have to offer and makes your website stand out.

Hello Soumya, Thanks for writing such a beautiful article. I am a big fan of Thrive content builder but did not tried the other two which you have mention in this article. I will surely give them a try.

I think Visual Composer much better than any other composer but the problem with Visual Composer is it slows the site’s loading speed which is one of the draw back of Visual Composer other than it’s nice one as for making visuals.

Hi Soumya, I bought visual composer just a month ago and now I am feeling sad. Your post gives an excellent comparison between three of them . If I have read your post earlier, I would have gone for thrive content builder only. Thrive content builder contains every essential element that I was seeking in a page builder. Thanks for sharing your views.

Great Post regarding comparision of all three page builders, i have used all of them and based on my personal experience, i will prefer Beaver Builder as it provides you lots of options like front end editing, built-in templates and even you can develop your own add-ons on top of it. Visual Composer on the other hand is bit tough to understand as it works in backend, so you cant actually see whats happening untill you save it, also some times it slows down sites as lots of JS & CSS loads. Thrive builder is good for landing pages i believe but i have a terrific time editing pages through it, So i would definitely go with Beaver Builder.

Yes, Beaver Builder is a superior product in the terms of functionality and stability. Also, it has a huge user community publishing lot of tutorials, how-to guides for extending the Beaver Builder experience.

I bought visual composer just a month ago and now I am feeling sad. Your post gives an excellent comparison between three of them . If I have read your post earlier, I would have gone for thrive content builder only. Thrive content builder contains every essential element that I was seeking in a page builder. Thanks for sharing your views